Co-sponsored by: IEEE Seattle YP + Seattle PES The IEEE Seattle YP has formed a local partnership with Startup Grind; a global startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. Under this partnership, IEEE members pay a reduced fee for local Startup Grind events. However, the IEEE is further subsidizing the cost to only $5/person for the first 6 registrants with a PROMO CODE below. The event takes place on Tuesday October 3rd at 6pm with networking, drinks, and food among entrepreneurs in Seattle. At 6:45pm, an insightful business driven Q/A session with the speaker will take place. The discussion will be focused on how the speaker got started in their respective business space with guidance and recommendations for aspiring entrepreneurs.  PROMO CODE:  ieeetix  --- register Below using promo code: https://www.startupgrind.com/events/details/startup-grind-seattle-presents-startup-grind-hosts-ta-mccann-during-startup-week-investor-advisor#/ I was previously VP of Product Strategy at Blackberry, focused on BBM (Blackberry Messenger), social applications (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Foursquare…) as well as the native Contacts apps after Blackberry bought my last company, Gist. I was the founder of Gist.com, a social address book sold to Blackberry in February 2011, as well as Jump2Go and 3 other web-based companies. I am on the board of Full Contact and Guidant and an active advisor to startup companies including Creative Live, Zooppa, EveryMove and Inkwell Media. I also spent 4 years at Microsoft in various roles on Exchange and Mobile Service Delivery Platforms. I like B2B and mobile stuff! Location: 111 SO Jackson St. Seattle, Washington 98101

The generation fleet connected to and serving our electrical grid is changing. For the western U.S. power system, these changes include retirement of very large nuclear and fossil-fired generation plants. Another change is the increasing presence of renewable generation, including inverter-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) generation. This presentation will focus on bulk power system characteristics and performance impacts due to these changes, including reduced fault currents and reduced stabilizing inertia. Discussion will include examples of traditional and newer technology solutions to mitigate the selected impacts presented.   Speaker(s): Charlie Vartanian, Location: Seattle, Washington

Join the IEEE Seattle Section to Celebrate IEEE Day! IEEE Day celebrates the first time in history when engineers worldwide and IEEE members gathered together to share their technical ideas in 1884. IEEE Day is officially October 3rd. IEEE Seattle EMC/MTT/AP/ED Joint Chapter Meeting Announcement Presented jointly by the IEEE Seattle Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Society, Antennas and Propagation (AP) Society, ​Microwave Theory and Techniques (MTT) Society, Electronic Devices (ED) Society Joint Chapter Smart Antennas for IoT and 5G: Recent Advances for Commercial and Aerospace Applications An educational seminar at the Museum of Flight This is a free seminar to celebrate "IEEE Day" but you must register in advance to reserve your seat! Speakers  Professor Constantine Balanis of Arizona State University Jari Vikstedt of ETS-Lindgren Anil Kumar of Boeing Friday, October 6, 2017, 10 am - 3 pm The Museum of Flight ​9404 East Marginal Way Seattle, WA 98108-4097 See the seminar announcement for additional event details, speaker biographies, and abstracts There is no charge to attend this seminar, however, space is limited. Registration is required to obtain entry. ​ Attendee Registration ​There will be a "tabletop" exhibition in the same meeting room space where the technical program will take place. There are a limited number of vendor spaces available. Vendor Information & Registration

Co-sponsored by: IEEE Seattle section Computer Society and Signal Processing society What is Identity Fraud? How does it occur?   We all know about Identity Theft, but do you know about Identity Manipulation? Synthetic Identities? What are the different modes of Identity Fraud?   In this presentation we will talk about all things Identity Fraud – what it is, how it occurs, where it is happening, and how we are using big data analytics to protect both businesses and consumers from this continually rising threat. In these days of constant data breaches how is our information sometimes used to harm us.   Speaker(s): Dr. Steve Coggeshall, Agenda: October 10th 2017,  6pm -7pm  Presentation by Dr. Steve Coggeshall  7pm to 8:30pm  IEEE Seattle section EXCOM meeting Location: Room: Room 1919 Bldg: Microsoft Research Building 99 14820 Northeast 36th Street Redmond, WA 98052, USA Redmond , Washington 98052

October Excom meeting Location: Redmond, Washington

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  For the past 100 years, electric utilities have moved with glacial majesty to reliably and safely operate the world’s most complex machine – the US electric grid. Today we move into a new era with upwards of 40% of our energy coming from variable renewable sources, driven by the overwhelming appeal of free fuel forever. Once renewable assets are depreciated, they continue to generate power for decades, virtually for free, with the only caveat being a complete disregard for our highly optimized work/life balance.   Speaker(s): Rick Winter, UE Technologies, Location: Seattle, Washington

Team updates. Location: Seattle, Washington

Northwest Energy System Symposium 2018, NWESS 2018 Planning Committee Meeting. These planning meeting for a 2-day IEEE PES conference to be held at the University of Washington are open plannning meetings held the 3rd Thursday of each month leading up to the conference.  The work is to obtain facilities, speakers for the conference, food and beverage and advertise.  Speaker(s): Max Emrick, Location: Seattle, Washington

    PenLight was established in 1925 as an Electrical Cooperative that provides service to the Gig Harbor and Key peninsulas and three islands in the NW corner of Pierce County. The 32,500-meter co-op is surround by water and has only a single point of power delivery by Tacoma Power’s Potlatch Transmission system. The rural location and lack of transmission diversity has presented the co-op with many challenges to serve their members and to meet their expectations for reliable service. Improving system reliability and finding a second point of power delivery has been their primary focus over the past ten years. CEO, Jafar Taghavi will discuss how PenLight has overcome these challenges to become one of the top performing rural utilities in the Pacific NW and nationwide as well.   Speaker(s): Jafar Taghavi, CEO, Peninsula Light Co, Location: Seattle, Washington

  Lately, the electric utility industry is being hit by several drivers worldwide. Resulting from policy concerns around climate change, these drivers have created the most significant impetus for change and the subsequent alignment of politicians, regulators and customers, resulting in pressure on utilities to incorporate new sources of energy (e.g., Wind, Solar), reduce emissions (renewable energy sources, carbon reduction mechanisms, etc.) and so on. Most sources of new energy behave very differently from the normal sources of energy that we are all used to. They tend to be somewhat more expensive, somewhat erratic in their energy production and as a result are slowly becoming the biggest and newest source of headache for the electric grid operator. New tools will be needed to forecast and manage these sources of energy as they become more and more prolific. Identifying mechanisms for managing and operating renewable resources is one of the hottest areas of research in the alternative energy field. In today’s presentation Dr. Vadari will present the underlying DERMS framework that covers all aspects of planning and operating renewable resources of energy. Features of this framework include a set of tools that treat DERs more as a portfolio instead of as individual products or services.   Speaker(s): Mani Vadari, Modern Grid Solutions , Location: Seattle, Washington

Global Humanitarian Technology Conference recap. Team updates. Location: Seattle, Washington

Co-sponsored by: University of Washington Bothell IEEE Student Branch ieee.uwbothell@gmail.com Increasing transmission capacity is essential to meet an increased demand of electricity, integration of renewable generation and so on. The power industry’s pressing need for the most economical ways to transfer bulk power along a desired path may be met by building new transmission lines, which is a long and costly process. Alternately, it may be quicker and cheaper to increase the available transfer capacity of the existing transmission lines with a power flow controller. Power flow control techniques have been practiced, from using inductors, capacitors, transformers and load tap changers in the earlier days of electrical engineering to power electronics-based solutions in recent years. Even though the costs and complexities of the available solutions vary widely, the basic underlying theory of power flow control is still the same as it always has been. SMART Power Flow Controllers (SPFC) are designed based on functional requirements and cost-effective solutions. Speaker(s): Dr. Kalyan K. Sen, Agenda: Food: 7:45 pm Technical Presentation Part 1: 8:00-8:50 pm Break: 8:50-9:00 pm Technical Presentation Part 2: 9:00-10:00 pm Location: Room: 202, Top Floor Bldg: Activities & Recreation Center (ARC) 18115 Campus Way NE Bothell, Washington 98011

Lately, the electric utility industry is being hit by several drivers worldwide. Resulting from policy concerns around climate change, these drivers have created the most significant impetus for change and the subsequent alignment of politicians, regulators and customers, resulting in pressure on utilities to incorporate new sources of energy (e.g., Wind, Solar), reduce emissions (renewable energy sources, carbon reduction mechanisms, etc.) and so on. Most sources of new energy behave very differently from the normal sources of energy that we are all used to. They tend to be somewhat more expensive, somewhat erratic in their energy production and as a result are slowly becoming the biggest and newest source of headache for the electric grid operator. New tools will be needed to forecast and manage these sources of energy as they become more and more prolific. Identifying mechanisms for managing and operating renewable resources is one of the hottest areas of research in the alternative energy field. In today’s presentation Dr. Vadari will present the underlying DERMS framework that covers all aspects of planning and operating renewable resources of energy. Features of this framework include a set of tools that treat DERs more as a portfolio instead of as individual products or services.   Speaker(s): Xing Wang, Centrica, Location: Seattle, Washington